StartupGSU, a unique organization at the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute, is a student-managed venture capital fund that awards sponsored, capital grants to Georgia State University undergraduate students who seek to launch or scale their ventures. Read to learn more.
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute (ENI) partnered with Zane Venture Fund to host the first-ever Entrepreneurship SummitGSU and third annual Main Street Entrepreneurs Seed Fund (MSESF) Demo Day. Read all about the two-day event.
This year’s TiE Atlanta competition, held at the GSU Buckhead Campus was split into two sections: a qualifying round and a final round. Out of the 22 businesses competing, three Georgia State students pitched their businesses in the qualifying round. Read all about it.
eFest 2022: Georgia State’s Conserve Innovation team of Nicole Toole and Minal Dalwadi was the only team from Georgia and faced stiff competition against teams from the nation’s top colleges and universities including Cornell University, Texas A&M University, and Virginia Tech. Read the full story.
MSESF Cohort 2 winner Regess Marshall (B.B.A. ’10, MBA ’19) has charted her education and entrepreneurial efforts around creating diverse, inclusive environments in the workplace, in the video game industry and in karaoke. Read more.
Alaina Percival (B.I.S. ’02, MBA ’08), the CEO and co-founder of Women Who Code, a global nonprofit that works to support women in the technology industry and an executive in residence at Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business, encouraged Georgia State students and alumni who have chosen technology as their career path to stay the course during a recent (March 23) virtual lunchtime conversation. Read the recap.
The Atlanta Chapter of the Entrepreneur’s Organization (EO) held their annual competition for the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA). This year, GSEA was once again formatted as a Livestream pitch competition where six finalists from universities across the country competed for a chance to win cash prizes and move onto the Global Finals later this year. GSU was a finalist – read more.
A new course offered in the Biomedical Enterprise master’s program in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences teaches students about scientific commercialization. Read about how an aspiring surgeon, Jalen Alford (M.I.S. ’21) wants to add entrepreneur to his list of career goals.
In this internship chronicle, Angela Praseuth a Computer Information Systems and Entrepreneurship student shares her experience as an intern while attending school. Her plans are to graduate in spring 2023 and pursue a career in consulting. Read about her experience.
Jessica Washington is one of those people who succeeded without a bachelor’s degree. After earning an associate’s in accounting, she focused on raising three children and running a screen printing and embroidery business. Read more.
